Many years ago the great British explorer GeorgeMallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climbit. He said, "Because it is there." 很多年前,伟大的英国探险家乔治·马拉里在攀登珠穆朗玛峰时遇难。曾经有人问他为什么要攀登珠峰,他回答说,“因为它就在那儿。” 在...
NASA never really had realistic estimates from the start about how much it was going to cost or how long it was going to take to build. “There was no one on the planet who knew how to build JWST when
The first test launch of the world’s most powerful rocket ended dramatically as it broke apart in the sky. But there’s still a lot riding on it—including NASA’s ambition to return to the moon.
Normal manufacturing techniques don’t always cut it for an object so particular—in the SpaceX factory, I was shown bizarre-shaped Falcon 9 parts that had to be 3D printed (and 3D designed) because there was no other good method to make them just the right way.1 But since none of ...
The Mars InSight lander’s solar panels were too caked in dust by 2022 to continue operation.NASA / JPL-Caltech Sometimes, a mission is no longer necessary because it’s been replaced by newer and better technology. TheSpitzer Space Telescope, for example, was a pioneer in the field of in...
On Oct. 2, NASA shared the view below, which was taken from data gathered by the Galileo mission in 1998. It shows a close-up of Europa's chaotic landscape, which is evidence that something below the moon's thick icy crust — like an ocean — is stoking lots of change and deformity...
The global pandemic triggered sky-high spending on manufactured goods. This increased spending created a huge bottleneck in the supply chain that could last for years. WIRED takes a look at the journey of a single shipping container; and with the help of
according to the Planetary Society, compared with Artemis’s $93 billion. In those years NASA was often blessed with 4 percent of the nation’s budget. Today it’s lucky to get around 1 percent, with the additional burden of many other spacecraft, te...
The New NASA Designed SuperPrompt For ChatGPT, How And Why It Works. The invention of Velcro was inspired by the way burdock burrs stick to fur and clothing. The Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, noticed this and created a fastening system that emulates this natural design. This i...